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Author: Frontline Publishing Publisher: Delmar Pub ISBN: 9781401843984 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 142
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The CareWorks Ladder curriculum consists of nine modules, each running approximately three hours in length. Designed to give qualified CNA's enhanced knowledge in areas critical for the skilled nursing environment, this title features a complete turnkey program for CNA's. It also gives you scripted lectures, exercises, and application forms.
Author: Frontline Publishing Publisher: Delmar Pub ISBN: 9781401843984 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 142
Book Description
The CareWorks Ladder curriculum consists of nine modules, each running approximately three hours in length. Designed to give qualified CNA's enhanced knowledge in areas critical for the skilled nursing environment, this title features a complete turnkey program for CNA's. It also gives you scripted lectures, exercises, and application forms.
Author: Susan C. Eaton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts initiated the Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative (ECCLI) as part of a broader Nursing Home Quality Initiative, adopted by the Legislature in 2000. This legislation is a response to high turnover and vacancies among paraprofessionals in long-term care, creating instability that threatens quality and access to health care. Basic to these initiatives is the equation of good care for consumers with good jobs and opportunities for frontline caregivers. Thus it asks long-term care providers to partner with other organizations (including community based groups, unions, work force development agencies, community colleges, and other long-term care providers) to mount demonstration projects that offer insight into new care-giving and workplace practices that improve the quality of care and the quality of jobs. These projects should also demonstrate how the accomplishment of care giving and workforce quality goals can be mutually reinforcing. Sponsors hope that such projects will offer clear and replicable models for both the long term care industry, and the workforce development community that supports the industry and its potential and existing labor force. ECCLI'S overall program goal is to promote systemic change and build capacity within the long-term care and work force development communities in support of the following goals and objectives: (1) Improve quality of care; (2) Promote skill development; (3) Create and institutionalize career ladders and other workplace practices that support and develop workers; and (4) Improve employee retention. The attached baseline evaluation report is presented as a working paper for the information of researchers and practitioners in the field of nursing home quality and workforce development. It covers the period from March 2001 to June 2001 when the ECCLI program was getting underway, and was submitted to the Commonwealth Corporation of Massachusetts, the quasi-public agency that is administering the funds from the Nursing Home Quality Initiative. Future reports will analyze data collected by the researchers after this baseline and planning period. Major findings include insight into the process of forming consortia across unfamiliar realms of human services (health care and workforce development and education), and challenges for the participants as they consider and implement organizational change as well as training programs for frontline workers as well as supervisors.
Author: Joan Fitzgerald Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501727184 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 268
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"The United States used to be a country where ordinary people could expect to improve their economic condition as they moved through life. For millions of us, this is no longer the case. Many Americans today have a lower standard of living as adults than they had in their parents' homes as children.... This book is about restoring the upward mobility of U.S. workers. Specifically, it addresses the workforce-development strategy of creating not just jobs, but career ladders."—from Moving Up in the New Economy Career-ladder strategies create opportunities for low-wage workers to learn new skills and advance through a progression of higher-skilled and better-paid jobs. For example, nurses' aides can become licensed practical nurses, administrative assistants can become information technology workers, and bank tellers can become loan officers. Career-ladder programs could provide opportunities for upward mobility and also stave off impending national shortages of skilled workers. But there are a variety of obstacles that must be faced candidly if career-ladder programs are to succeed. In Moving Up in the New Economy, Joan Fitzgerald explores specific programs in different sectors of the economy—health care, child care, education, manufacturing, and biotechnology—to offer a comprehensive analysis of this innovative approach to job training. Addressing the successes achieved—and the problems faced—by career-ladder programs, this timely book will be of interest to anyone interested in career development, workforce training, and employment issues, especially those that affect low-wage workers.
Author: Susan Goldberger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 19
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This report is part of Advancement for Low-Wage Workers: A Series of Reports from Jobs for the Future. Jobs for the Future develops models, strategies, and policies that enable adults to advance toward economic self-sufficiency for themselves and their families. Drawing on innovative workforce development efforts around the country, our publications, tool kits, and other resources respond to the challenges to advancement for low-wage workers. This series of documents seeks to elevate discussion of this critical issue within and outside the workforce field. Fueled by government funding and increased employer investment in "grow your own" strategies to address the severe shortage of nurses, a handful of innovative Licensed Practical Nurse training programs has arisen to serve low-income adults working in entry-level health care. These programs share several features that set them apart from traditional LPN training programs and account for their success in helping low-income working adults with limited education enter and complete demanding LPN training programs: (1) They provide intensive academic remediation in math, reading, and writing to prepare students for college-level work and pass program entrance exams; (2) They offer part-time or evening/weekend schedules so that participants can continue working while they are in school; and (3) They provide formal tutoring and counseling support to students once they enter the program to help them meet the demands of school, work, and family. Most important, they incorporate their programs of study into well-defined steps of employer-sponsored career ladder programs that offer financial support, classes at or near the work site, and clear rewards in pay and promotion for successful completion of each step. Sponsoring employers typically pay tuition costs in return for the student's commitment to continue to work for them for a period of time upon graduation. While the programs profiled here share many similarities, they vary in the types of educational providers they use and the nature of program sponsorship. Two programs use community colleges to provide training, another uses a non-profit vocational school, and another runs its own vocational LPN program. Program sponsors include a large nursing home employer, a jointly administered union-management training fund, a community college-initiated partnership with local nursing home employers, and a Workforce Investment Board-initiated partnership with local area hospitals. List of Interviews is appended.
Author: Stephanie Luce Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 1610448197 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 362
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The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such a large segment of workers imperil economic prosperity and living standards for all Americans. Though many policies to assist low-wage workers have been proposed, there is little agreement across the political spectrum about which policies actually reduce poverty and raise income among the working poor. What Works for Workers provides a comprehensive analysis of policy measures designed to address the widening income gap in the United States. Featuring contributions from an eminent group of social scientists, What Works for Workers evaluates the most high-profile strategies for poverty reduction, including innovative “living wage” ordinances, education programs for African American youth, and better regulation of labor laws pertaining to immigrants. The contributors delve into an extensive body of scholarship on low-wage work to reveal a number of surprising findings. Richard Freeman suggests that labor unions, long assumed to be moribund, have a fighting chance to reclaim their historic redistributive role if they move beyond traditional collective bargaining and establish new ties with other community actors. John Schmitt predicts that the Affordable Care Act will substantially increase insurance coverage for low-wage workers, 38 percent of whom currently lack any kind of health insurance. Other contributors explore the shortcomings of popular solutions: Stephanie Luce shows that while living wage ordinances rarely lead to job losses, they have not yet covered most low-wage workers. And Jennifer Gordon corrects the notion that a path to legalization alone will fix the plight of immigrant workers. Without energetic regulatory enforcement, she argues, legalization may have limited impact on the exploitation of undocumented workers. Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum conclude with an analysis of California’s paid family leave program, a policy designed to benefit the working poor, who have few resources that allow them to take time off work to care for children or ill family members. Despite initial opposition, the paid leave program proved more acceptable than expected among employers and provided a much-needed system of wage replacement for low-income workers. In the wake of its success, the initiative has emerged as a useful blueprint for paid leave programs in other states. Alleviating the low-wage crisis will require a comprehensive set of programs rather than piecemeal interventions. With its rigorous analysis of what works and what doesn’t, What Works for Workers points the way toward effective reform. For social scientists, policymakers, and activists grappling with the practical realities of low-wage work, this book provides a valuable guide for narrowing the gap separating rich and poor.
Author: Timothy J. Bartik Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute ISBN: 0880993324 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 336
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In this book, which was the outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the Upjohn Institute in Washington,D.C., in June 2007, leading policy analysts frame the major challenges facing U.S. labor policy: Improving the skills of American workers so that they can better compete in a global economy; Addressing the crisis in our system of employer-sponsored health insurance; Minimizing the effects of dislocation due to immigration and trade; Removing barriers to employment for older workers; Improving the quality of jobs for low-wage workers without harming the competitiveness of American companies; Addressing the serious employment barriers of the disadvantaged. Each chapter in this volume tackles one of these policy challenges, identifying the key problems,evaluating the effectiveness of current policy approaches, and offering innovative, forward-thinking, but pragmatic alternative policies. Collectively, the chapters in this volume offer a clear road map for future labor market policy.
Author: Mignon Duffy Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813572878 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 497
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A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sleep. Every day, workers like these provide critical support to some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Caring on the Clock provides a wealth of insight into these workers, who take care of our most fundamental needs, often at risk to their own economic and physical well-being. Caring on the Clock is the first book to bring together cutting-edge research on a wide range of paid care occupations, and to place the various fields within a comprehensive and comparative framework across occupational boundaries. The book includes twenty-two original essays by leading researchers across a range of disciplines—including sociology, psychology, social work, and public health. They examine the history of the paid care sector in America, reveal why paid-care work can be both personally fulfilling but also make workers vulnerable to burnout, emotional fatigue, physical injuries, and wage exploitation. Finally, the editors outline many innovative ideas for reform, including top-down and grassroots efforts to improve recognition, remuneration, and mobility for care workers. As America faces a series of challenges to providing care for its citizens, including the many aging baby boomers, this volume offers a wealth of information and insight for policymakers, scholars, advocates, and the general public.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Educational law and legislation Languages : en Pages : 1698
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor